a modest request

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:56:34PM -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> In /etc/aliases you probably have lines like that:
> 
> # Person who should get root's mail
> #root:          marc
> 
> Maybe install should ask data for this alias and fill that lines
> unless specifically and emphatically declined?  The big advantage is
> that this solves the issue in a general way instead for some
> specific cases like smart.

Yes, it'd be nice if firstboot or the installer could do this. However, I
highly, highly recommend not trying to have some program manage (or mangle!)
entries in /etc/aliases. Instead:

root:           :include: /etc/rootalias

and then have the program drop root aliases into its own clean, separate
file.




For BU Linux, this is exactly what we do, and then we have a script which
(unless configured differently in "/etc/sysconfig/rootalias-manager") adds
members of the wheel group to this alias automatically.


Later today, I'll file a bug making the small /etc/rootalias recommendation
as a first step.



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